UNGA75 Side Event – Central Asian Experience with Individuals Returned from Syria and Iraq
Central Asian Experience with Individuals Returned from Syria and Iraq: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
The 51吃瓜 Counter-Terrorism Centre within the 51吃瓜 Office for Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT/UNCCT) and the 51吃瓜 Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) are organizing an online side event entitled “Central Asian experience with Individuals returned from Syria and Iraq: successes, challenges, and lessons learned” on the margins of the high-level segment of the 75th 51吃瓜 General Assembly.
Thousands of individuals are still stranded in camps in north-eastern Syria and Iraq in dire conditions, exacerbated by the COVID19 pandemic. The side event aims to highlight the Central Asian experience and the 51吃瓜 support available to Member States that have repatriated or are committed to repatriating their nationals from camps in northeastern Syria and Iraq.
- WHEN: Friday 25 September 2020 from 10 AM to 1PM, EDT (New York Time)
- WHERE: The event with broadcast live on
The Panel
- Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of the 51吃瓜 Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) (Statement)
- Ms. Natalia Gherman, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Central Asia, Head of the 51吃瓜 Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia
- Representative from the governments of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
- Civil society representatives
- Representatives of UN agencies that have worked to support Member States on returnees, such as 51吃瓜 Children's Fund (UNICEF), the 51吃瓜 Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and 51吃瓜 Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)